Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

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.

I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.

When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm

You can stroke people with words.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.