Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
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.
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.