Quotes
Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes illness worth while.
The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.
But a sigh is not (like a yawn) infectious; and we are all more prone to be sent to sleep than to sorrow by one another. Not but what a sigh sometimes may make us think of sighing.
"Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than the rest of the world; but I can't help it if I'm pleasanter. It's constitutional."
It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.
I remember a female editor saying to me over a generous cocktail: “Of course the difference between us and you Brits is that you have irony and we don’t.” I decided to smile and murmur, “Well, apparently not,” and she looked at me as if a trick cigar had just exploded in her face.
p. 218
What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
p. 334
Death has this much to be said for it:
You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
Wherever you happen to be
They bring it to you – free.
p. 7
“The one unforgivable sin,” she used to say, “is to be boring.”
p. 13
A day
Spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
