When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

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 find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.