I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious.

It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.

A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.

The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.