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.
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.
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.
Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.
To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
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.
All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.
It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
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.
I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
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.
Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.
I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.
To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.
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.
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.
I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.
Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.
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.
A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.
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