To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
In married life three is company and two none.
Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.