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

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.

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

I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies.

Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.

Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.