I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.

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

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.