Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.