Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

In married life three is company and two none.

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.