People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.

If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.