To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.

No one chair should be isolated.

I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.

a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.