One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.