Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.