To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

It is not chic to be too chic.

Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.

Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.

No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.

My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.

[At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color!