Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do.

Time is a friend - perhaps the best one we shall ever have. ... Time is a now - and there is only now. Memories look backward. Hope looks ahead. But there is in reality only now.

Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position for the one who must hit it - while in conversation you must try to put it where it will be easy to hit.

If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence. There is a charming graciousness in doing so, for it seems to say that you do not think your remarks are the last words to be said on the subject. It prevents you from seeming opinionated. How men dislike an opinionated woman! No one really likes her! To keep your voice up sounds as though you are interested in other people's ideas. The subject is still open!

Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys.

The very thing that seems to impede your progress can often be turned to account for you.

Flirting is a cheap, dangerous shortcut to get something you can't hold after you get it.