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

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

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

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

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.

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

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?