“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.” PeopleMenBookRunningGamesMy OwnPleasureCompanyHabitConversationResourcesInnocentTendenciesDrySensibleInstructionBoresTirePipeOpiumSmokersPraiseworthy Book:Collected Short Stories Source: Collected Short Stories
“Im lucky that its about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I dont know what I would have done.” IfsKnowsDoneFatherCompanyFashionLuckyPerfumeTireCosmetics Author:Delphine Arnault
“Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.” PeopleIfsLongWholeCarePayCompanyTalkingCasesPleaseTreatsConvincedTreatedTireReckoning Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters