What fire does not destroy, it hardens

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Education is an admirable thing.

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

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.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.