[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

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

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

I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

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.

Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.