It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.
Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.
There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.
All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.
To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.
Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.