Cruelty and fear shake hands together..

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris..

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant..

But woman brings disorder into society through passion..

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness..

A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they a….

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it..

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk..

Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin..

They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding..

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage..

In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves ….

Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else..

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race..

One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de….

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry..

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined..

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mani….

By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate..

Resignation is a daily suicide..

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them fr….