He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.
She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.
[To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.