| There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. |
| Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare. |
| It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage; but some people manage to be both. |
| Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. |
| Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. |
| Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised. |
| Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful. |
| The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius. |
| The kiss is the safest way to shut up saying everything. |
| A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one. |
| Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered. |
| Military men are the scourges of the world. |
| History, that excitable and lying old lady. |
| It is not difficult to pass for being learned. The secret is not to betray your ignorance. |
| It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living. |
| A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption. |
| The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. |
| Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe; it gives back life to those who no longer exist. |
