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.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.

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.

In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.

I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.

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?