There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one’s own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.
The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.
Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.
There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.
Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.
Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.
I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she’s so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.
His socks compelled one’s attention without losing one’s respect.
Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.
To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn’t any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.
Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out “under orders” from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.
You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.
In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
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.