She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.