Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one of his main ideas, you know, that the males of almost all animals have stronger passions than the females. Since then we've learned a thing or two. At any rate, the female snake is right there when spring arrives in the woods.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.

I'm a poetry-skipper myself. I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country - make it any other two persons. This doesn't mean that I hate poetry. I don't feel that strongly about it. It only means that those who wish to communicate with me by means of the written word must do so in prose.

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.