The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.