Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

You will find my last words in the blue folder.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.