Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
Everything comes to the man who won't wait.
Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.