You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them.

One does what one can, not what one cannot.