He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.

Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.