My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
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.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?
It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.
Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.
I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to write professionally.