One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.

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

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

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

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.