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

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

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

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.

His modesty amounts to deformity.