As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

A “good” family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

A ‘good’ family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

I can’t take a well-tanned person seriously.

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn’t-it just stops you from enjoying it.

There are three terrible ages of childhood – 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title – expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

The facts of life are very stubborn things

You can’t make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

A supreme social challenge.

I can’t take a well-tanned person seriously