Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.