Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.
Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.