The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Then she paused. A rose shook in her blood and shadowed her cheeks. Quick breath parted the petals of her lips. They trembled. A southern wind of passion swept over her and stirred the dainty folds of her dress. "I love him", she said simply.

The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failure.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

To be in love is to surpass one's self.