Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

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

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.