“A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife”

“Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock”

“There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them”

“The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time”

“Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable”

“There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty”