“a man who hates music can’t be trusted, I always say.”

“Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.”

“A musicologist is a man who can read music but can’t hear it. ”

“I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . . A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can't show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.”

“I hate you. I hate you like the girl who hates cake because it makes her fat and she can’t stop eating it.”

“I’m always battling myself – the part of me that says I can and the part of me that says I can’t. My greatest gift has been that the part of me that says “I can’t” is always, always just a little bit louder.”