Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.