A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

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.

Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.