Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque and beg a wallpaper designer to take you in with him.

Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough.

I don't like the kind of country living where you have to help. I like country living where there is help.

Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.

Because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints.

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.