It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.

I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

[To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back in style.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.