Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is thinking, unless it is about her child, or her husband, or her lover. It ... gives one gooseflesh.

The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

the bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.