He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?"

"The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions."

A kiss may ruin a human life.

"There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband."

"They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not."