A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one. |
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. |
Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: ''If you truly love me, kill the bartender.'' |
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. |
Don't do housework: after a few years the dirt doesn't get any worse. |
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head |
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. |
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. |
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. |
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. |
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change |
For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook. |
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. |
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police. |
I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned |