There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

What's the use of money if you have to earn it.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.