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

I see but one rule: to be clear.

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.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

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