People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.