Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.

Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.