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

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.

A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.