The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

Most people are other people.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!