I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

all tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it.

one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.

This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.

If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic.

I like to see cats in movement. A galloping cat is a fine sight. See it cross the road in a streak, cursed by the drivers of motor cars and buses, dodging the butcher's bicycle, coming safe to the kerb and bellying under its home gate.

My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.