“English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.” MightInterestConversationTraditionEnglandTablesDinnerStrictTopicsDinner TableBanalityAdherence Author:Elspeth Huxley
“To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.” IfsWellsDoeEnoughMightArtistSocialPracticeEssenceOneselfDeceptionDeceivingLifelongSocial LifeIllusionistsDeceiving Others Book:The Mottled Lizard Source: The Mottled Lizard
