Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.

one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all.

The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.

domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.