“Women have no appreciation of good looks—at least, good women have not.”

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

“I make a great difference between people. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me. Is that very vain of me? I think it is rather vain.”

“Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.”

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

“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”

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