You Can Do Something With Talent, But

I Have Been Devoured All My Life By An Incurable And Burning Impatience: And To This Day Find All Oratory, Biography, Operas, Films, Plays, Books, And Persons, Too Long.

My Sort Of Looks Are Of The Kind That Bore Me When I See Them On Other People.

It Is Not Dying, But Living, That Is A Preparation For Death.

Truthfulness With Me Is Hardly A Virtue. I Cannot Discriminate Between Truths That And Those That Don't Need To Be Told.

[to Her Host Upon Leaving A Party:] Don't Think It Hasn't Been Charming, Because It Hasn't.