“The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. ”

“Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.”

“American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.”

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

“I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!”

“The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future. ”