"If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you."

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

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

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."

"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow."

"Lady Caroline: As far as I can make out, the young women of the present day seem to make it the sole object of their lives to be always playing with fire. Mrs. Allonby: The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up."

"If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world."

"The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable."

"When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy."

"My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality."

"This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night."

"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."