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?

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

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

One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great deal of courage. It is a matter of a great many people having just a little courage.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.