"When a woman is talking to you,..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”

“So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.”

“Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.”

“Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.”

“It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.)”

“Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.”

“There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.”

“She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.”

“Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.”