Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.

I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.