Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made,

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

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The cook was a good

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

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He spends his life explaining

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.

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Hors d'oeuvres have always a

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.

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It's no use growing older

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

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Scandal is merely the compassionate

Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

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No one has ever said

No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.

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No one can be an

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

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The young have aspirations that

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

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