A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.

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.

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are so powerfully evoked within us by the slow strains in Mozart. I find also in Rossini a cool freshness, which, measure by measure, makes us smile with delight.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.