The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

He had as much fun in the water as any person I have known. You didn't have to throw a stick in the water to get him to go in. Of course, he would bring back a stick to you if you did throw one in. He would even have brought back a piano if you had thrown one in.

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.