36 quotes found
“If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.”
“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.”
“I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.”
“She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it.”
“I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting”
“I can always forgive where I understand.”
“It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong”
“It is so important to think for yourself.”
“Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do.”
“One wouldn't wish to tempt fate”
“It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.”
“Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artist”
“I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.”
“No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.”
“One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.”
“Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.”
