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For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.

A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.

Greenfly, it's difficult to see Why God, who made the rose, made thee.

People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

Holy Mother we do believe,
That without sin Thou didst conceive;
May we now in Thee believing,
Also sin without conceiving.

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.

This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.

Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.

The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep

Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.

I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.