The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping.

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.

There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.

Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy.

Life needs a room so hermetically sealed to breathe life

I'm with him, and he's with me, and that's the way it's meant to eternally be.

Life goes before we know what it is. / One fool is enough in any house. / Even God gets tired of too much hallelujah. / Take it easy and live long as brothers.

The truest mark of your success in life will be the quality of your marriage

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.