Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.