She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.