To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

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

Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart.

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.