Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.