I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats