Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it..

Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that..

In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself..

My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made her give up the theatre, to my etern….

A happy love is full of quarrels, you know..

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is..

We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically..

Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves..

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance..

One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline..

There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will keep me from being happy..

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man..

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then….

Nothing is irreparable in politics..

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law..

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy..

Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for….

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid..

Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world..

All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly..