The worst of pushing horrible things down into one's subconscious is that when they pop up again they are as fresh as if they had been in a refrigerator. You haven't allowed time to get at them to-to mould them over a little.

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do. ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race.