The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
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.
The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.