The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.

I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

Memory is more indelible than ink.

I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.

Fate keeps on happening.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

I've always loved high style in low company.

There's nothing colder than chemistry.

Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.

True passions do not deprive love.

All the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the [climate] effects are larger and more rapid than we had thought even a decade ago.

Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.

As an artist, I have been a risk-taker. And I've done a lot of different things. I don't make it easy for people. Identification is difficult. One doesn't recognize my art right away.

I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.

There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.

Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game.