“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.”

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”

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

“You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.”

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”

“To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!”

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