She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.