Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than the rest of the world; but I can't help it if I'm pleasanter. It's constitutional.

Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.

love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone except the individual sufferer who writhes under its tortures.

A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.

Of course there are exceptional circumstances, and there is exceptional talent; but, unhappily, exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.