We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.