drawing-room quotes

During the past few weeks, I felt sometimes that the Suez canal was flowing through my drawing room.

- Lady Clarissa Eden
  Speech, Nov.

It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

-James Grover Thurber
  In the NewYorker, 2 Aug.