I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical p...hrase.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and e...xperience of the world--a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and fee...ls more profoundly and ... more irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an... extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine... horse--as a luxury befitting a young man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »