Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Appa….

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature..

Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar W….

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated..

She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night..

Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all..

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have..

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter..

When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!.

Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon..

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her..