The crown of literature is poetry.

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.