Love's a disease. But curable.

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal... unless she's really attractive.

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.

the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.