Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.

Watch out, I have a large, very large fur, with which I could cover you up entirely, and I have a mind to catch you in it as in a net.

Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.

I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.