That is the worst of women. They always want one to be good. And if we are good, when they meet us, they don't love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad, and to leave us quite unattractively good.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

A truly good woman comes in only two types: One who knows nothing and the other who knows everything.