What is elegance? Soap and water!

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I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.

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San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.

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All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

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Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.

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Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.

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Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

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On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

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I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue.

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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

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