If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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.

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

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.