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

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

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

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

A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.

It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.