The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a man cannot be said to be"on the side of the stars" at all, unless he makes refusals.

The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.

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

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

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

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

Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.