The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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

When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.

With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.