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

On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.

Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

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

There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.