[...] the art of life was the avoidance of the unattainable. — Saki

[...] 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.

[...] cats, [...] wonderful creatures which have assimilated themselves so marvellously with our civilization while retaining all their highly developed feral instincts.

[...] 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.