Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.