Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

America is not a country, it is a world.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.