[At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color!

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

Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

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.

I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.