As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
The secret of success is sincerity.
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
I forgot they were talking about me. They sound so wonderfully convincing.
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
I believe in the gods. Or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us I believe they are completely absent-minded.
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.