It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.