Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
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.
Romance at short notice was her speciality.
I always say beauty is only sin deep.