Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.
What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?
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.
My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.
It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.
Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.