“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 ...”

“Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.”

“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”

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”

“Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.”