In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.

She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children.

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country you worry about.