Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.

I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.