I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.