Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. |
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. |
There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that. |
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. |
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. |
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. |
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. |
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. |
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. |
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .` |