My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately unpleasant as the sewers of Paris. With decent and honorable gents, I come all over Platonic. Was ever a woman so perverse and wrongheaded?

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.