If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being immensely over-educated.

The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearabl…

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One must eat muffins quite calmly, it is the only way to eat them.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.

'Whom are you?' he said, for he had been to night school.

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

I don't care how stylish something is if it doesn't flatter me.