Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one.

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.

There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.