Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.
To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.