To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.
Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.
The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.
Women and elephants never forget an injury.
He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.