The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

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.

The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

I hate babies. They're so human.

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

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.