To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.