It isn't class differences that keep people apart, it's thinking they bloody matter. - Kingsley Amis

That stuff you read didn't condition you, you chose it because it was what you wanted to hear.

As far back as she could remember, she had gone in for day-dreams about what clothes, jewellery and the like she would wear if, like her admired and adored Marie Antoinette, she were somehow to find herself facing public execution.

[W]hat's the point of growing a beard if you're not going to be a little bit free and easy?