“Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.”

“And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.”

“I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.”

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”

“And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.”

“Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.”

“It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.”

“No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.”