The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

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.

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

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.