To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!
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To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!
We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
Anybody can be good in the country.
When men give up saying what can be charming, they give up also thinking it.
Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.
What is said of one is unimportant. But it is important who said it.
Whatever happens to oneself happens to another.
It must be perfectly easy in half an hour to say whether a book is worth anything or worth nothing. Ten minutes are really sufficient, if one has the instinct for form.
To be modern is the only thing worth being nowadays.
It seems to me that we all look at nature too much, and live with her too little.