She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"

Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

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

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it. But you'll be astounded to learn what the sea will do.' What do you mean?' she smiled. Well, love isn't a good sailor and it languishes on a sea voyage. You'll be surprised when you have the Atlantic between you and Larry to find how slight the pang is that before you sailed seemed intolerable.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.