All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.