At birth the Devil touched my tongue.

If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song

There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don't catch horses going around looking like people, do you?