Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.

It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.