The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

Be yourself, because others are already taken.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.