The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.

I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.

I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time.

It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.

The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.

It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

I think you hear, at least as an undertone, and it's going to grow louder, is that we believe that capitalism is the mantra of the day and anything that creeps towards socialism is a problem.