My dear father, when one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Mothers are different. Mothers are darlings.

My dear father, if we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it [common sense], do we, father?

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

You can deny all you want that there is etiquette, and a lot of people do in everyday life. But if you behave in a way that offends the people you're trying to…

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.