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

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

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

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.