I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.