One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.

I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, "How gay 'twould be To hang me from a flowering tree.

A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet the short flat terms used over and over, both in dialogue and narrative, add neither vigor nor clarity; the effect is not of shock but of something far more dangerous — tedium.