On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.