We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.

He shimmered out, and I sat up in bed with that rather unpleasant feeling you get sometimes that you're going to die in about five minutes.

It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.

Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.

The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.

She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.