Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.