No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

Those who know the least obey the best.

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Come in the evening come in the morning Come when expected come without warning Thousands of welcomes you'll find here before you And the oftener you come the more we'll adore you.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

I get some acting jobs. I like it other than the constant slipping in and out of character.

Future generation is the most important thing.

All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.

The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.

Everybody is a writer. Everybody uses e-mail and has Facebook pages and tweets.

No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.