You can bear anything-if it isn't your own fault.

It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.