Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.