If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.