I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.

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

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Jean Jacques Rousseauis nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends.