Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world.

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.