The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.