The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

art is the pulse of a nation.

Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.