Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

Romance at short notice was her speciality.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.