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

A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.

But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

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

To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.

Our true passions are selfish.