The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

—W. Somerset Maugham

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

—W. Somerset Maugham

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

—W. Somerset Maugham

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

—W. Somerset Maugham

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

—Oscar Wilde

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

—Henry David Thoreau

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

—Gilda Radner

There's never a new fashion but it's old.

—Geoffrey Chaucer

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

—P. J. O'Rourke