Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.
It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.
Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.