Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.