When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.

After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.