"It is often necessary to know how..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.”

“I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.”

“The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.”

“Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.”

“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.”

“Friends should have all things in common.”

“Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.”

“The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.”

“There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.”