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

“Fools – in other words most people – imagine that it would be a wonderful achievement to be able to recover our youth; but those who know life are aware how little it would profit us. ("A Woman's Vengeance")”

“The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.”

“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success”

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

“For – as everyone knows – in libertinism bad taste is a potent force. ("A Woman's Vengeance")”

“He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. ("A Woman's Vengeance")”