The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.