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" As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. "

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" When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. "

" In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth. "

" Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. "

" Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. "

" Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity. "

" Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. "

" The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. "

" I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china. "

" Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. "

" Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. "

" Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination. "

" Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. "

" I can resist everything except temptation. "

" The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. "

" There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. "

" No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. "

" I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. "

" The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. "

" Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable. "

" This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. "

" 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. "

" The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. "

" Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. "

" It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. "

" 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. "

" Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality. "

" I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful. "

" Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. "

" There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. "

" Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. "