We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

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

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

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.

Romance at short notice was her speciality.

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

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