Don't use big words. They mean so little.

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

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.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!