If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

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.

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

Life is too short to be in a hurry.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.