1. “Brevity is the soul of lingerie.” ~
2. ”By the time you swear you're his,Shivering and sighing,And he vows his passion isInfinite, undying ---Lady, make a note of this:One of you is lying.”
3. “Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.”
4. “Excuse me, I have to use the toilet. Actually, I have to use the telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so.”
5. “Excuse my dust.”
6. “Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.”
7. "I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true."
8. “I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.”
9. "If you want to see what God thinks of money, just look at all the people He gave it to."
10. “I give her sadness and the gift of pain,a new moon madness and a love of rain.”
11. “I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.”
12. “I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.”
13. "It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes."
14. “Lips that taste of tears, they sayAre the best for kissing.”
15. “Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.”
16. “Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.”
17. “Scratch a lover, and find a foe.”
18. “She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.”
19. “Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.”
20. ”Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.”
21. “Tell him I’ve been too f*cking busy – or vice versa.”
22. “The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of their tires.”
23. “They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.”
24. “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
25. “Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.”
26. "Trapped, like a trap in a trap."
27. “Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
28. “You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.”
