A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.

There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.

Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.

People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.