A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

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

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

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.

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

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?