Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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.
My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.