“That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.”

“We are always parting! It's supposed to be sweet sorrow or something, isn't it? Those poets. They'll say anything.”

“A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.”

“You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.”

“Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.”

“...soon dinner will run into bed-time, and we shall all eat reclining like the ancient Romans--about whose digestion, you know, I have often wondered. Whether a dose of rhubabrb might have made a difference to Nero or Caligula is a question you might ponder, my dear, next time you go through your Tacitus.”

“I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.”