“Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.”

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don’t see ourselves sleeping.

Down to earth but she stayed an angel.

I’ll admit I’m not perfect I’m like an angel fallen from grace. I’ve been a sinner and a saint.

If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you’re a badass with the heart of an angel.

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you’re the devil in disguise.

Angels on earth exist I know it.

Dogs and angels are not very far apart.