The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

I have a bad memory for facts.

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.