“Gentlemen do so appreciate a nicely trimmed décolletage.”

“Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.”

“Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?”

“Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.”

“He admired her for throwing off her aristocratic shackles -- his terms, that -- and making her own way in the world.He didn't realize that the truth was so much more complex, so much less impressive. She had less thrown than been thrown.”

“It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.”

“It would be, like all of Pammy's parties, hot and crowded and filled with impossibly glamorous people with hip bones so sharp they could qualify as concealed weapons.”