- The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
- Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands ... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
- I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
- At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
- The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
- I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
My favorite:
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
# posted by SV @ 8/30/2003 08:39:00 AM