Most rich people are the poorest people I know.

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.

Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.