Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives.

- Emile Souvestre

Women speak in the superlative.

- Emile Souvestre

Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.

- Emile Souvestre

Wisdom and love do not take up their abode in the same breast.

- Emile Souvestre

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.

- Emile Souvestre