All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
Remember that one should be thankful that there is any fault of which one can be unjustly accused.
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.
Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. It can't be questioned: it reigns by divine right.
It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
There is no such thing as a Secret of Life. The aim in life, if there is one, is that of seeking temptation. There aren't enough: I sometimes pass a whole day finding no temptation whatsoever. It is a very sad thing, it makes one fear for the future.