I always say beauty is only sin deep.

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

I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

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

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big game have done to deserve it, but they do help to deflect the destructive energies of some of our social misfits.

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