What do most people mean when they say that? So young. Something innocent, something appealing, something helpless. But youth is not that! Youth is crude, youth is strong, youth is powerful – yes, and cruel! And one thing more – youth is vulnerable.
Two people rarely see the same thing.
Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine without batting an eyelash and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least! Women are wonderful realists.
With the eyes of the mind one can see more than with the eyes of the body.
Those who talk most about blood have never actually seen it run.
The outward form – it is a bagatelle – but it matters to people. It enables them to keep the amour propre.
So many things look beautiful, before we’ve reached them. Some of the ugliest things in the world look the most beautiful…
Nothing is so boring as devotion.
Nothing can be so misleading as observation.
Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.
No one human being knows the full truth about another human being.
Never worry about what you say to a man. They’re so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it’s unflattering.
