“Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”

“Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.”

“People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.”

“My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!”

“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied”

“The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.”