Sometimes love is best expressed through service. Words are great, but when you walk in love, your commitment must be more than words.
[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.
Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
We will not engage in an endless process of negotiations.
Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.
Ability without honor has no value.
I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.