Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?
Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.
People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.
Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.