“High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.”

“High heels were invented by a woman who had once been kissed on the forehead.”

“That's when a woman finds herself--when she's in love. I don't care if she is old or fat or homely or prosy. She feels that little flutter under her ribs and she drops from the tree like a ripe plum.”

“We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.”

“The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.”

“Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.”

“The fact that Holmes had earlier lodgings in Montague Street (alongside the British Museum) is forgotten. That was before Watson and we must have Watson too.”