Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

A burnt child loves the fire.