Book: A woman of no importance. Page 6

In society there are women who are only of two kinds: the plain and the coloured.

The woman is the picture. Man is the problem. If you want to know what is really a woman thinks, - and this, incidentally, is always a dangerous thing - look at it, but don't listen.

A man can't have success in life, if it does not support women, and women rule society.

Duty is what one expects from others, not ourselves.
(The sense of duty is what people want to see in others.)

Discontent is the first step to progress, both at the individual and the entire nation.

When a man is old enough to do evil, he is old enough to is evil to fix.

Man always wants to be the first love of a woman. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. We would like to be a man's last romance.

Life, lady Stutfield, is simply "un mauvaise quart d'heure"* composed of moments of happiness.

- Curious thing, plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful, never.
- Beautiful women never have time. They are always so busy - jealous husbands.

And never in anything not to be on anyone's side, Mr. Kelvil. This is the beginning of sincerity, and her heels should be the seriousness and the human being becomes hopelessly boring.

I think to elope is cowardly. This means to avoid danger. And danger has become so rare in our lives.

There is nothing what could not be hoped for. Life and have hope.