London … remains a man’s city where New York is chiefly a woman’s. London has whole streets that cater to men’s wants. It has its great solid phalanx of fortress clubs. Louis Kronenberger
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about. Louis Kronenberger
Where wit is a form of criticism or mockery, humor includes an element of self-criticism or self-mockery; where wit tends to proclaim imperfection, humor wryly acknowledges it; where wit undresses you, humor goes naked.