I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.
Romance at short notice was her speciality.
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.