On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.

The only Christian work is good work, well done

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

[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?

If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle

He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.