 Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. |
| A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. Topics: Funny Love, Marriage |
| Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. |
| Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. |
| The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. |
| To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. |
| Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside. Topics: Love |
| Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin. |
| It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music. |
| The more one judges, the less one loves. |
| The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. |
| It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment. |
| An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. |
| No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. |
| I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. |
| Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. |
| It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. |
| What is art? Nature concentrated. Topics: Art |
| Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. Topics: Love |
| A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. |
