Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices..

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet..

We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day..

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell..

A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason..

Old age is a woman's hell..

Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love..

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it..

The loss of friends is a tax on age!.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion..

Hatred is nearly always honest--rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love..

It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war..

Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness..

Glances are the first billets-doux of love..

Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth..

I hold those wise who know how to be happy..

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover..

The passions do not die out; they burn out..

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful..

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman..