I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

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

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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

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