Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

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

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.