She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.