“For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.”

“They had...finished their lives before their death which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.”

“He had a reputation in society as a man with a lively wit, whose gaiety was pleasant and formidable which all gaiety must be in a society which would despise you if, while amusing it, you did not ...”

“If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History itself often eno...”

“Men are all the same. Novelty amongst themselves displeases and upsets them but if the novelty is wearing a skirt, they go crazy f”

“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those good souls who want everything to be prettified, even the h...”

“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation. (p.232)”

“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”

“As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

“He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.”

“Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.”

“Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.”