Women who suggest to the mind notes of interrogation are more interesting than those, too perfect, who only suggest notes of admiration.
Constant reproaches do not kill love so quickly and so surely as constant reminders of what one has done to deserve gratitude. Why? Simply because Cupid loves freedom, and lives on it. To ask for love as a debt of gratitude is like forcing it, and the failure is fatal.
Women are all actresses. What makes actresses so fascinating and attractive to men is that they are women twice over.
Woman is weak and man is strong—so we constantly hear, at any rate. Then why, in the name of common-sense, do we expect to find in women virtues that demand a strength of which we men are not capable?
There are women in the world who love with such ardour, such sincerity, and such devotion, that, after their death, they ought to be canonized.