Quotes
The sacred duty of hospitality.
[...] be surrounded by Americans trying to talk French? No, thank you. I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
spoken by Susan Mebberley · The Chronicles of Clovis · Adrian · p. 142
[...] cats, [...] wonderful creatures which have assimilated themselves so marvellously with our civilization while retaining all their highly developed feral instincts.
spoken by Mr. Appin · The Chronicles of Clovis · Tobermory · p. 109
[...] the Duchess declared I shouldn't write anything nasty in her book, and I said I shouldn't write anything in her nasty book, so there wasn't a very wide point of difference between us.
Reginald · Reginald's Rubaiyat · p. 37
[...] the Mayor gave us a graphic account of a struggle he had with a wounded bear. I privately wished that the bears would win sometimes on these occasions; at least they wouldn't go vapouring about it afterwards.
Reginald · Reginald's Christmas Revel · p. 34
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are really conscious of their limitations [...].
spoken by Reginald · Reginald · Reginald at the Carlton · p. 25
Life is full of disappointments, [...] and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.
spoken by The Duchess Irene · Reginald · Reginald at the Carlton · p. 25
[...] if you want a lesson in elaborate artificiality, just watch the studied unconcern of a Persian cat entering a crowded salon, and then go and practise it for a fortnight.
Reginald · Reginald on Worries · p. 20
The reason one's elders know so comparatively little is because they have to unlearn so much that they acquired by way of education before we were born.
Reginald · Reginald on Worries · p. 20
[...] never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive, grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.
spoken by Reginald · Reginald · Reginald at the Theatre · p. 14
[...] the art of life was the avoidance of the unattainable.
spoken by Reginald · Reginald · Reginald on the Academy · p. 11
There ought [...] to be technical education classes on the science of present-giving. No one seems to have the faintest notion of what any one else wants, and the prevalent ideas on the subject are not creditable to a civilized community.
spoken by Reginald · Reginald · Reginald on Christmas Presents · p. 8
