412 quotes found
“Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.”
“There are four varieties in society the lovers the ambitious observers and fools. The fools are the happiest.”
“Whatever people may say the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis the former know how to a...”
“Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes ennui of the higher ones.”
“Society my dear is like salt water good to swim in but hard to swallow.”
“Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile they are commonly planted too close.”
“In order to stand well in the eyes of the community it is necessary to come up to a certain somewhat indefinite conventional standard of wealth.”
“I respect kindness in human beings first of all and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law I have a total irreverance for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads saf...”
“These families you know are our upper crust not upper ten thousand.”
“He might have proved a useful adjunct if not an ornament to society.”
“It is impossible in our condition of Society not to be sometimes a Snob.”
“To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people amuse people or shock people.”
