There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

A gentleman never offends unintentionally

The curves of your lips rewrite history.