Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow. |
She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide. |
The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told. |
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy. |
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination |
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. |
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. |
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would-be-sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind |