Daily quote by Society

• Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
  • L. E. Landon. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 724–25.
• Full quote: Truly, society is like a large piece of frozen water ; there are the rough places to be shunned, the very slippery ones all ready for a fall, and the holes which seem made expressly to drown you. All that can be done is to glide lightly over them. Skating well is the great art of social life.
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon Francesca Carrara (1834), Vol. I Chapter 25