Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.

More than by upper-class señoritas, with their long legs and blond manes, I've been impressed by the women of the people: mature, strong, hard-working, earthy.

I like fabrics, colors, makeup, and the routine of putting myself together every morning, even though I spend most of my time locked away in the attic writing. "No one sees me, but I see myself," my mother would comment philosophically

I think he tries to be nice. But he has absolutely zero self-awareness. None. Zip. So we see the public Donald Trump, the candidate, as being different than the in-person Donald Trump.

Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

You can tell German wine from vinegar ... by the label.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success.

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, 100 things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

Saint abroad, and a devil at home.