A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next.

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

Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.

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.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.