Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.

I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.

He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.

You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.

'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead.

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.