Don’t ever wear artistic jewellry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation. — Colette

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men... nine men out of ten are superstitious, nineteen out of twenty believe in the evil eye, and ninety-eight out of a hundred are afraid of spiders. They forgive us — oh! for many things, but not for the absence in us of their own feelings.

Boredom helps one to make decisions.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.