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

What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

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