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

A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

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

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.

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

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.