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

There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.

Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

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.

On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.