There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.

[To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't.

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.