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

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.

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

It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.

The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.