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

The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.