There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.

if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.