Who said “Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”?

“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.”

“You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.”

“Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.”

“A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.”

“Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.”

“It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.”

“Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)”

“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”

“All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.”

“Art is a form of catharsis.”

“Work is the province of cattle.”