Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

France has usually been governed by prostitutes.

You find something agreeable in almost everyone. I am put off by anything not wholly agreeable. ~ Evelyn Waugh in a letter to Cooper.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a seri…

There are people who meet strangers and people, like me, who know only those they've known from birth