on emily

Realizing the futility of words, Emily decided on action. [money for nothing]

When people trod on Emily, she expected them immediately to fuss over her, and the same procedure seemed to be in order when they hit her on the nose with doors. Waiting expectantly, therefore, for Colonel Wyvern to do the square thing, she was stunned to find that he apparently had no intention of even apologizing. He was brushing past without a word, and all the woman in Emily rose in revolt against such boorishness. [money for nothing]

on moustaches

Non-Army men may grow moustaches and brood over them and be fond and proud of them, but to obtain a waxed moustache in the deepest and holiest sense of the word you have to be a Sergeant-Major. [money for nothing]

He rose from his seat with easy grace, and his hand, falling from the salute, came to rust on the western section of his waxed moustache. [money for nothing]

And it couldn't be done, anyway. It woud involve shaving off my moustache, to which I am greatly attached. When a man has neither chick nor child, he gets very fond of a moustache. [uncle dynamite]

on fashion

You don't need a hat to tax a man with stealing a pig. [summer lightning]

on friendship

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. [strychnine in the soup]