A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Minna Antrim
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Love often wears a mask in order to test loyalty.
To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
The man who holds the key to a woman's heart should make certain the old ones are destroyed.
A kiss is the outward visible sign of an inward fever.
Yield nothing to love that is denied to discretion.
The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.
Man proposes, woman forecloses.
When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.
Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.
She who boasts of lovers soon has none.
Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.
That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.
Women are angry if other women think too little of their lovers, and furious if they think too much.
