“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”

“Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!”

“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”

“I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”

“I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little—if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. And it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.”

“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”

“All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.”

 “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”

“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.”

“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”

“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”

“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

“Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.”

“War is not ‘the best way of settling differences;’ it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.”

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it. 

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.