Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second, to chronicle that progress cheerfully, truthfully, and entertainingly.

The only perfect climate is bed.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second, to chronicle that progress cheerfully, truthfully, and entertainingly.

My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word snob comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.

... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.