“Women are never so strong as after their defeat.”

“Pooh! Women say those things, but never do them.”

“...paleness is always looked upon as a strong proof of aristocratic descent and distinguished breeding.”

“What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.”

“Women and doors - did I not tell you, friend Porthos, that they are always to be managed by gentleness? - D'Artagnan”

“In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God”

“Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.”