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

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

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

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.