“(it was) beautiful, like so many senseless things.”

“For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.”

“Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us...”

“Dandies, who as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind.”

“Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatred's nectar!”

“I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.”

“And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just...”

“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes”

“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”

“Prsente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve;Dans le fond des forts votre image me suit”

“Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.”

“The only French word I know is oui, which means yes, and only recently did I learn its spelled o-u-i and not w-e-e.”

“It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.”

“You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sin, you know, and cry tears doing it that are genuine as any.”

“If I could undo everything," Tony said, "I would never have gone to that party. I was an idiot, Kelly, and it cost me the love of my life.”