If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.

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.

If you have life, you have everything.

Never hurt people who love you a lot because they won't hurt you back. but they will probaly have no choice but to leave you forever

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.

I need an endorphin boost.” “And making out in an abandoned barn with me will give you one?” “No, it will probably put me in an endorphin coma, and I’m more than happy to test the theory.

Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I used to always cry from loneliness.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.