Most women in London, nowadays, seem to furnish their rooms with nothing but orchids, foreigners, and French novels.
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Most women in London, nowadays, seem to furnish their rooms with nothing but orchids, foreigners, and French novels.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
The masses feel that drunkenness, stupidity, and immorality should be their own special property, and that if any one of us makes an ass of himself, he is poaching on their preserves.
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces a false impression.
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
Having had a good upbringing nowadays is a great disadvantage as it excludes you from so many things.