It's a good thing to have a fail-safe in your character.

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people.

She felt somehow as if she was not an essential part of the scheme of things.

There's some excuse for a woman being worldly, but none at all for a man.

It's very childish of you to assume that you originated everything that you do.

But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, pingpong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.

That's only in novels. When a girl's as quiet and uninteresting as you are she's got to be fresh somehow to get along.

Bernice's education had begun. She was the product of a weak versatile mind working with the unstable materials of her era and locality.

But, of course, a dark horse may win in any race.

There's always a chance, of course, that the public will start demanding vampire stories again.

But if a man never likes in the first place how on earth will you ever know?

Bernice Bobs Her Hair