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don’t like this. I thought we had agreed never to be serious about anything.” “I’m trying. But death and poverty have a way of making everything seem rather less amusing.”
“No, he keeps the schedule of a cat. Long hours of slumber interrupted by brief periods of self-grooming.”
One could never truly know a man until one lived with him.
“Just because you don’t understand or agree with something doesn’t mean that it lacks merit.” “Agreed. But you can’t deny that some traditions were invented by idiots.”
“But I hope to love them someday. Sometimes one must love something before it becomes lovable.”
“Forgive me—I seem to have become accidentally lucid.”
“I know many scientific facts about the human heart—not the least of which is that it’s far easier to make a heart stop beating entirely than to keep it from loving the wrong person.”
“Do you think it’s right for people to judge a man for what he wears?” “It is not for me to decide whether it is right, sir. The fact is, they do.”
“There are three things that everyone expects of an aristocrat,” the valet replied, tugging firmly at the pig’s collar. “A country house, and a weak chin, and eccentricity.” He pushed and pulled at the pig
