He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.