It reads better than it lives
You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.
If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.
A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.
These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men.