“Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes”

“this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night”

“She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.”

“Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.”

“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.”

“She is a peacock in everything but beauty!”

“No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.”