Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody - and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.

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

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.