"If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race."

"All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"Angry people are not always wise."

"I can always live by my pen."

"Nobody minds having what is too good for them."