Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.