For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep 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.

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.