“Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.”

“There used to be two kinds of kisses: First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind, where the man is kissed and deserted. If Mr. Jones of the nineties bragged he'd kissed a girl, everyone knew he was through with her. If Mr. Jones of 1919 brags the same, everyone knows it's because he can't kiss her any more. Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.”

“Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possession of her right mind must be in want of a decent man.”

“Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.”

“Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.”