As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

... up to this date, I have never been shut up in a separate room, or hedged off with any observances. My study, all the study I have attained to, is the little 2nd drawing room where all the (feminine) life of the house goes on; and I don't think I have ever had two hours undisturbed (except at night, when everybody is in bed) during my whole literary life.