Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.

Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter.

The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.

I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen." [From a column dated November 17, 1928]

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.

[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.