The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes.

A lot of meetings are held to arrange when to have meetings. ... Meetings today are usually called conferences to make them sound more significant.

The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.

I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home.

Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried.

The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes.