Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

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

It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.