What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
No man has any real success in this world unless he has got women to back him, and women rule society. If you have not got women on your side you are quite over.
I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Duty is the most arid of all human relationships.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man's last romance.
In the case of very fascinating women, sex is a challenge, not a defence.
Who, being loved, is poor?