She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.” Waddington, smiling, translated the question. “She says I’m good.” “As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” Kitty mocked.

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.