Occupation: Writer Birth: December 25, 1908 Death: November 21, 1999
I have come to think that both sex and politics are a mistake and that any attempt to establish a connection between the two is the greatest error of….
It's a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy..
I never spend my time doing anything I'll have to do again tomorrow..
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be calle….
The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it.
Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it..
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave..
To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings..
If I were God - and I never understand why I'm not - I should say, "Shop around, I don't think you'll find a better bargain than here.".
I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say 'Can I make up?' and he would say 'Oh yes - tinted?', or he would say, ….
I've come from a very masculine country to a feminine country. England was very masculine; people went from England to abroad, and they landed from a….
The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity..
If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central law….
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding..
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a deli….
I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive..
I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I w….
I stay in one room, and it's easier to live there, to control it, to make it warm. It seems to me a convenient way to live, and it's cheap..