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

"If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead."

"I'm never going to be famous. I don't do anything, not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more."

"I really can't come to your party Mrs. Parker, I can't bear fools.' That's strange; your mother could."

"I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion."

"Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you."

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

"I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all."

"In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell."

"A woman's place is in the wrong."

"Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow"

"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; to severe, seldom executed."