Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.