I’m living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
Never be a pioneer. It’s the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
This story has no moral. If it points out an evil at any rate it suggests no remedy.
It follows that they never understood Reginald, who came down late to breakfast, and nibbled toast, and said disrespectful things about the universe. The family ate porridge, and believed in everything, even the weather forecast.
Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.
Clovis believed that if a lie was worth telling it was worth telling well.
To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.
The English have a proverb, ‘Conscience makes cowboys of us all’.
The clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored.
Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
The young man turned to him with a disarming candour which instantly put him on his guard.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.
In baiting a mousetrap with cheese always leave room for the mouse.
Sherard Blaw the dramatist who had discovered himself and who had given so unstintingly of his discovery to the world.
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion . . . there’s nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
He’s simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.