In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.

No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.

I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous.

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.