Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

My way of joking is to tell the truth

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.