A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.
Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don’t see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
Soft moonlight and tender love harmonize together wonderfully.
There is a certain time of life, when we value a good stomach more than the mind...
Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.
There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached.
Inconstancy is the child of satiety.
The passions do not die out; they burn out.
The less heart, the more comfort.
I hold those wise who know how to be happy.
Glances are the first billets-doux of love.
A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.
Firmness is great; persistency is greater.
When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.
Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.
Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.
It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.
We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.