Snobs

by Julian Fellowes

The English, of all classes as it happens, are addicted to exclusivity. Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

she was quite funny and in my experience funny people are seldom stupid.

Of course, one of the basic truths of life is that, as a general rule, the world takes you at your own estimation.

Society has the great merit of blunting the dullness of one’s partner.