If You Are Perfectly Willing To Shock

The Principle Of Fashion Is . . . The Principle Of The Kaleidoscope. A New Year Can Only Bring Us A New Combination Of The Same Elements; And About Once In So Often We Go Back And Begin Again.

Civilization Is Merely An Advance In Taste: Accepting, All The Time, Nicer Things, And Rejecting Nasty Ones.

When The Temperamental And Unconventional People Are Not Mere Plagiarists Of Dead Eccentrics, They Lack, In Almost Every Case, Thehistoric Sense.

... The More We Recruit From Immigrants Who Bring No Personal Traditions With Them, The More America Is Going To Ignore The Things Of The Spirit. No One Whose Consuming Desire Is Either For Food Or For Motor-cars Is Going To Care About Culture, Or Even Know What It Is.

Nothing Makes People So Worthy Of Compliments As Receiving Them. One Is More Delightful For Being Told One Is Delightful-just As One Is More Angry For Being Told One Is Angry.