As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.

Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets.