The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.

It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.