The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats’s poems, but her family denied both stories.
And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.
Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?
Romance at short notice was her speciality.
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
I hate posterity – it’s so fond of having the last word.
But, good gracious, you’ve got to educate him first. You can’t expect a boy to be vicious till he’s been to a good school.
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.
I hate babies. They’re so human.
The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends...
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.
The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.
I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
Women and elephants never forget an injury.