53 quotes
A beautifully constructed borsch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)
I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
“Possibly,” answered Tobermory; “but only one liver.”
But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
Reginald in Russia (1910)
All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's. A few gifted individuals manage to do both.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
I might have been a goldfish in a glass bowl for all the privacy I got.
Reginald (1904)
To die before being painted by Sargent is to go to Heaven prematurely.
Reginald (1904)
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went.
Reginald (1904)
Mother, may I go and maffick,
Tear around and hinder traffic?
Reginald (1904)
Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
Reginald (1904)
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
Reginald (1904)
Mrs. Troyle paused again, with the self-applauding air of one who has detected an asp lurking in an apple-charlotte.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
Eleanor hated boys, and she would have liked to have whipped this one long and often. It was perhaps the yearning of a woman who had no children of her own.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)
Romance at short notice was her speciality.
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)
The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.
Reginald (1904)
I came here to get freedom from the inane interruptions of the mentally deficient, but it seems I asked too much of fate.
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
And like every woman who has ever preached repentance to unregenerate youth, she dwelt on the sin of an empty life, which always seems so much more scandalous in the country, where people rise early to see if a new strawberry has happened during the night.
Reginald (1904)
Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)
Put that bloody cigarette out!