The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.

The art of cursing people seems to have lost its tang since the old days when a good malediction took four deep breaths to deliverand sent the outfielders scurrying toward the fence to field.

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.

I can get dressed earlier in the evening with every intention of going to a dance at midnight, but somehow after the theatre the thing to do seems to be either to go to bed or sit around somewhere. It doesn't seem possible that somewhere people can be expecting you at an hour like that.