I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.