"Quelle étrange coutume des Français que d'exécuter les gens à l'aube! (What a strange custom of the French to execute people at dawn!)"

"My life has been a continuous masquerade."

"A woman's greatest weapon is her beauty, and her greatest defense is her wit."

"My only crime is to have been born beautiful and to have used my beauty to live my life as I wished."

"A courtesan's life is a life of freedom. I choose my own path, I make my own rules. No one can tell me what to do."