My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.

New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.

In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.