It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.
