“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”

“Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.”

“What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion.”

“It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.”

“I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”

“I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.”

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