One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.