Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.

Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed.

The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.

The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me.

A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.