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

The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.

And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

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

I hate babies. They're so human.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.