"And if my heart be scarred and burned,The safer, I, for all I learned."

"Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?"

"The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back."

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away."

"I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you."

"ur be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.Three be the things I shall have till I die:Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye."

"In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To hell, my love, with you."

"By the time you swear you're his,Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is,Infinite, undying.Lady make note of this --One of you is lying."

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."

"If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised."

"The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed."

"Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses."

"Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne."

"MenThey hail you as their morning starBecause you are the way you are.If you return the sentiment,They'll try to make you different;And once they have you, safe and sound,They want to change you all around.Your moods and ways they put a curse on;They'd make of you another person.They cannot let you go your gait;They influence and educate.They'd alter all that they admired.They make me sick, they make me tired."

"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires."

"Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt."

"I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true."

"There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.", Summer 1956]"

"I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid."

"Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both."

"That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them."

"Brevity is the soul of lingerie."