I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.

Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable; an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.

Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.

A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

Women have been brought up much like slaves, that is, to lie.