Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. This makes them prone to set themselves up as critics and censors of the frail and erring human beings whose lot they share.

What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?

What is Love compared with holing out before your opponent?

They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying that they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name.

It's not that I don't trust you, Dunstable, it's simply that I don't trust you.

A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of the Borgia family for people they had a particular grudge against, so I chose them.

A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.