 Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. |
| The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them. |
| You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. |
| A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. |
| Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres. |
| Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born. |
| It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself. |
| Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts. |
| He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. |
| The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. |
| I always say beauty is only sin deep. |
| No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve. |
| He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it. |
