Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

Skinny women don't enjoy being told they're skinny nowadays. They enjoy telling you how they got that way, as though starvation were an achievement.