If it was my business, I wouldn’t talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one’s business. Only people like stockbroker’s do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

The first dinner-party of a bride’s career is a momentous occasion, entailing a world of small anxieties. The accomplishments which have won her acclaim in the three years since she left the schoolroom are no...

If you want to keep people happy, just keep the food and entertainment rolling.

In the rosy glow it diffused her companions seemed full of amiable qualities. She liked their elegance; their lightness, their lack of emphasis: even the self-assurance which at times was so like obtuseness now seemed...

I saw something scary. It was a boy, asking me what I’m doing naked in his father’s fridge. Dinner party’s over.

Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.