Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don't know ten souls who read him without a middleman.

I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?

Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.

When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.

ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.