No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

To define is to limit.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.