Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

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

Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.

Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

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