If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.

Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.

It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.

We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.