Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

We only do well the things we like doing.

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.