The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
Max Beerbohm"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."
Max BeerbohmMen of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Max Beerbohm