Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

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

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

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