L'Envers du music hall (Music Hall Sidelights), "On Tour" (1913)
“Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.”
Quoted in 2009 in The Many States of Tracey Ullman https://tracey-archives.tumblr.com/post/119868522838/the-many-funny-states-of-tracey-ullman
“A young woman can live off the folly of men; a man of any age can live off the folly of women.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
Source: Three Guineas (1938), Ch. 3, p. 109
Context: The outsider will say, "in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." And if, when reason has said its say, still some obstinate emotion remains, some love of England dropped into a child's ears by the cawing of rooks in an elm tree, by the splash of waves on a beach, or by English voices murmuring nursery rhymes, this drop of pure, if irrational, emotion she will make serve her to give to England first what she desires of peace and freedom for the whole world.
“I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches a certain age she likes, she should stick with it.”
As quoted in Funny Ladies : The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women (2001) by Bill Adler, p. 18
“A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
