 Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. |
| No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. |
| Hatred is blind, as well as love. |
| Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. |
| It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. |
| The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. |
| Those whom the gods love grow young. |
| The basis of optimism is sheer terror. |
| Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. |
| I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. |
| By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. |
| There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose. |
| I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. |
| The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. |
| The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. |
| Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. |
| Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. |
| How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. |
| In married life three is company and two none. |
| If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. |
