On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.