Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.