After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.