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

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

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.

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.