Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

The better sort of Ishmaelites have been Christian for many centuries and will not publicly eat human flesh uncooked in Lent, without special and costly dispensation from their bishop.

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.