It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.

Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

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

Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.

When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.