The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

The facts of life are very stubborn things

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.