“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.”

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

“One should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.”

“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.”

“The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.”

“There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!”

“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”