The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

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

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?