A pleasant occupation for A rather susceptible Chancellor
A pleasant occupation for A rather susceptible Chancellor
Funny without being vulgar.
Man is nature's sole mistake.
It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly ugly daughter.
I am the very model of a modern Major-General I've information vegetable, animal and mineral I know the Kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.
Time was when Love and I were well acquainted.
She may very well pass for forty-three In the dusk with a light behind her
I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal, That's born into the world alive, Is either a little Liberal, Or else a little Conservative
Sir, I view the proposal to hold an international exhibition at San Francisco with an equanimity bordering on indifference.
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
Sir, Sunday morning, although recurring at regular and well foreseen intervals, always seems to take this railway by surprise.
Matrimonial devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion.
We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.
He is an Englishman For he himself has said it, And it's greatly to his credit, That he is an Englishman
For you dream you are crossing the Channel, and tossing about in a steamer from Harwich, Which is something between a large bathing-machine and a very small second-class carriage.
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
A source of innocent merriment.
Dukes were three a penny.
Philosophy is for the few.
When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
Things are seldom what they seem.
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
He uses language that would make your hair curl.
The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
I'm a greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery, Foot-in-the-grave young man
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