| [Frontispiece] | |
| Most women if they had to choose would ask for a clear complexion in preference to a clear conscience | [page 29] |
| Men do not try to escape temptations; their only fear is that some temptation should escape them | [pages 46-7] |
| You can never forget a sin you have confessed | [page 63] |
| Most women live for the present, and the handsomer the present the better they live | [page 71] |
| Men always say that they loathe being flattered, but don’t take any notice—no man has ever known that he was flattered | [page 74] |
| Letters that should never have been written and ought immediately to be destroyed are the only ones worth keeping | [page 78] |
| The husband who counts is the one who has something to count | [page 83] |
| When you see an old man alone you are looking at something very sad. When you see an old man with a young woman you are looking at something rich | [page 92] |
| What a woman wears reveals more than she says | [page 99] |
TATLINGS
TATLINGS
THE LOOKING-GLASS reveals us as we are to ourselves; the Wine-glass reveals us as we are to others.
IF A MAN puts a woman on a pedestal someone else will help her down.
NO MAN gets what he wants, though some may get what they have wanted.
THE REASON that a love affair so seldom ends happily is that one of the lovers is generally unwilling for it to end at all.
NO ONE agrees with other people’s opinions, they merely agree with their own opinions expressed by somebody else.