Man is a reasonable animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

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

Hearts live by being wounded.

Who, being loved, is poor?

If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.