My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failures.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Failure is only the name that we give to our mistakes."-Oscar Wilde

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.