I have my ignorance to thank for the few things I know.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.

Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

The mind is the laboratory where products, both fake and genuine are manufactured. People grow wild weeds, others grow flourishing flowers!

Fiction opens a window of imagination that reality closes.

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.

Traveling around, it's difficult to follow much TV. Mainly I'm somebody who watches sports.

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

You take the risk of being rejected.

He just stood there, looking at me, as if I had actually changed before his eyes. But this was the girl I'd been all along. I'd just hidden her well.