To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

I hate babies. They're so human.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.