The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured!
I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.
I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.