He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.' Didn't you mean them?' At the moment.

For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

The tragedy of love is indifference.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.