The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us.
A balance, I think, is needed, ” Dr. Templeton said judiciously,“between the head and the heart: nothing easier to say: nothing harder to achieve.
One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.
It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong.
No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.
When you are in love- everything is romantic.
I can always forgive where I understand.
If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn’t mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.
To marry is to narrow one’s possibilities horribly.
A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.
You cannot believe everything you hear.
I am afraid I shall disappoint people’s expectations dreadfully.
It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard.
People argue themselves out of their pleasures.
Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion.
Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?
Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what’s best for them.
I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.
Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late.
But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn’t look nicer between someone’s shoulder-blades.