Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

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

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

The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.