Love amazes, but it does not surprise.

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.

once, when I was a young lady and on a night express ... I was awakened by a man coming in from the corridor and taking hold of my leg ... Quite as much to my own astonishment as his, I uttered the most appalling growl that ever came out of a tigress. He fled, poor man, without a word: and I lay there, trembling slightly, not at my escape but at my potentialities.

Happy is the day whose history is not written down.

Children driven good are apt to be driven mad.

The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.

Love amazes, but it does not surprise.