An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.

Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.