As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives.

Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.

Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.

And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

Spring makes everything look filthy.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.