Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.

You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.