You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.