Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.
American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
It is only the sacred things that are worth touching
Art only begins where Imitation ends.
Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.