Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.
If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
It is personalities not principles that move the age.
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!