“Above all else I am a dilettante in life.”
“Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.”
“I am a woman above everything else.”
“And so I pray I am today as honestwith myself, with life all around me and below and above me,with all who I encounter.”
“Wheresoe’er I am,—below, or else above you— Wheresoe’er you are, my heart shall truly love you.”
“For most of my life i have been adored by fools and hated by people of good sense, and they all make up stories about me in which I am either a saint or a whore. But I am above these judgments, I am a Queen.”