In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one.

Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting.

The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...