You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person..

We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, b….

The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him..

It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the spell of what is distant from u….

London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member..

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns ….

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank..

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of ….

To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven..