Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

There is no fashion for the old.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.