Belligerents always abolish war after a war.

once, when I was a young lady and on a night express ... I was awakened by a man coming in from the corridor and taking hold of my leg ... Quite as much to my own astonishment as his, I uttered the most appalling growl that ever came out of a tigress. He fled, poor man, without a word: and I lay there, trembling slightly, not at my escape but at my potentialities.

The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.

Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.

There are not enough poems in praise of bed.

Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.

To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences grits that smooth sliding fall, no recollection of disillusionment blurs that pure desire.