Who said “The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.”?

“For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.”

“We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.”

“Few men have been admired of their familiars.”

“Every great house is full of haughty servants.”

“In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.”

“Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.”

“He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.”

“Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.”

“The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.”

“We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart.”

“You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.”