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

Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.

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.

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.

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.

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

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