We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Sherry, the civilized drink.

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain