Selected social quotes

1. Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.

2. Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

3. The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

4. I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

5. I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.

6. But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?

7. Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

8. Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

9. It's sometimes easier to do the impossible than to do the embarrassing.

10. Be a good neighbor, and leave me alone.

11. My social life is much better, since I stopped spending it with other people.

12. Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

13. Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly the case, and every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.

14. I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.

15. I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

16. Keep up appearances whatever you do.

17. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

18. How easy it is to tell tales!

19. Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

20. The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

21. Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.

22. The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.

23. Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

24. Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.

25. Oppression is the essence of power.

26. The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

27. Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

28. Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

29. Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game.

30. People with opinions just go around bothering each other.

31. One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.

32. A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

33. It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

34. Be of the disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving your fellow creatures and drawing them near to the Law.

35. Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

36. We can drink till all look blue.

37. The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

38. One good turn asketh another.

39. A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

40. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

41. I'm mortified!