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

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.

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

... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.

people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.