“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”

“One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.”

“I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.”

“With an evening coat and a white tie, as you told me once, anybody, even a stock-broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized. Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious academicians, I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.”

“For romantic young people like he is, the world always looks best at a distance; and a prison where one's allowed to order one's own dinner is not at all bad.”

“To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.”

“I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.”