The best style is the style you don't notice.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity. They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.

I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.

Writing is the supreme solace.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.