I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

Such are the mass of the supporters of either party. They derive their political opinions originally from some family tradition or some fanciful preference, but they back them with all the passion of sportsmen. In a vague subconscious way they know it is a game, but they happen to enjoy playing the game.

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body of doctrine whose adherents are called Communists and who desired the total subversion of what had been, hitherto unquestioned among civilized European men, the general doctrines of property and individual freedom.