I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature’s only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.
My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.
Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?
I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!
This is the story of what a Woman’s patience can endure, and what a Man’s resolution can achieve.
Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.
The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.
But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?
She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.
Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.
What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman’s dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!
I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.
Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.
Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is – the enormous prosperity of Fools.
The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.
Women can resist a man’s love, a man’s fame, a man’s personal appearance, and a man’s money, but they cannot resist a man’s tongue when he knows how to talk to them.
If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.