The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.
Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)
My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.
When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!
My education was interrupted only by my schooling.
An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.