the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.

I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I had only just thought of it.

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?

A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.