Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.

You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.

Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

Never get involved with someone who wants to change you

In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.