But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.
Dorothy ParkerShould they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
Dorothy Parker