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

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

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.