A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.
I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.
It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.
Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.
Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.
Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.