They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

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.

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.