“Well, she wore far too much rouge last night, and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of desperation in a woman.”

“She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.”

“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”

“Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.”

“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”

“Well, eighteen, then. And I saw you with him the other night at the opera." She laughed nervously as she spoke, and watched him with her vague forget-me-not eyes. She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy. Her name was Victoria, and she had a perfect mania for going to church.”

“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.”