Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.

You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears.

Always wanting another man than your own.

I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.