A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

All women are rebels.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.