Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.