Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

[To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't.

My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.