Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

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

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

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

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.