Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

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

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

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.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.