Coffee is a product
Coffee is a product favouring sociability, friendship, and conversation and it should always be consumed with someone else. Ernesto Illy
Sociability
A successful social technique
A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion. Eric Hoffer
It is very unreasonable
It is very unreasonable of people to expect one should be at home, because one is in the house. Of all privileges, that of invisibility is the most valuable. Elizabeth Montagu
[On sociability in Italy:]
[On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper. Elizabeth Hardwick
Visitors should conform as
Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands for personal attendance. They should not carry their moods into the drawing-room or to the table, and, whether they are bored or not, should be ready to contribute as much as in their … Read more
It is, indeed, a
It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls … Read more
Agoraphobia was my quirky
Agoraphobia was my quirky armor against a gregarious America. Florence King
My object is to
My object is to live in a place that does not call itself ‘the community with a heart.’ I want one of those godforsaken towns where all the young people leave and the rest sit on the porch with a rifle across their knees. Florence King
If we define a
If we define a misanthrope as ‘someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,’ we have described a person with something to look forward to. Florence King
If you ever meet
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope. Florence King