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

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.

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

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

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.