The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

Ah, there are no longer any children!