The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.

I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.)

kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.

I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.