“The men had scattered in all directions, which men are inclined to do when women leave them to their own devices for any length of time. I believe they are easily bored.”

“Men like to create unnecessary organizations and give them impressive or mysterious names; this usually ends in increased confusion, and should therefore be ignored.”

“I had refused Emerson's well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.”

“Why is a man with a knife after your blood? Who sent him? I would like to write the fellow a letter of thanks!”

“I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.”

“Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments. ”

“The men had scattered in all directions, which men are inclined to do when women leave them to their own devices for any length of time. I believe they are easily bored.”

“There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.”

“The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.”

“You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”