A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.

The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.