The objects of which Paris folks are fond--literature, art, medicine and adultery.
- - speech at the Stanley Club in Paris, ca. April 1879
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals--apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
- Mark Twain's Notebook
A Frenchman's home is where another man's wife is.
- Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
M. de Lamester's new French dictionary just issued in Paris defines virtue as: "A woman who has only one lover and don't steal."
- quoted in A Bibliography of Mark Twain, Merle Johnson
Thanks, Moonman62, for the great quotes.
I don’t know why these people bother to get married. They sure do get bored really fast.
A 43 year old woman who can’t remain faitful to her husband after less than two years of marriage. What is wrong with these people? I know they are French, but Jeez!
He should change the locks at the Palace.
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it’’.—Mark twain.