How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.