Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.

Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.