What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I t….

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered..

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead..

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity..

the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feat….

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them..

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine t….

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing..

One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source ….

If one can't be happy, one must be amused..

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life..

It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves….

Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee and croissants, quite p….

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness..

If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in….

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?.

The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad p….

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms..

Sun, silence, and happiness..

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease..

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars..