Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.