The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

You can behave as badly as you like in America. Nobody notices.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

Men get laid, but women get screwed.