She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.

First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.

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

Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!