To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people

One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.