The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who does not complain... For innocence admits of ….

The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it..

A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature..

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am..

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile..

To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let ….

During war we imprison the rights of man..

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man..

When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio..

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the trut….

Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden--an almond tree or an….

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic in….

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people..

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire..

Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay..

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once‚ at least‚ the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. T….

Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside..

Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and t….

To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless..

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands..

Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live..