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

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

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.

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.