A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude |
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men. |
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. |
And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised. |
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. |
Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on |
By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet |
By associating with the cat one only risks becoming richer. |
By associating with the cat one only risks becoming richer. |
Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid? |
Give me a dozen such heartbreaks, if that would help me lose a couple of pounds |
How do you like them? like a pear, a lemon, a la Montgolfier, half an apple, or a cantaloupe? Go and choose, don't be embarrassed. |
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it. |
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. |
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. |