I always say beauty is only sin deep.

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

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

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

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.

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.