Before me no one would have dared dress in black

Modesty is the highest elegance

I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.

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