A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.
The New England conscience. . . doesn't stop you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just stops you from enjoying it.
Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.