The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.