“Prism! Where is that baby?”
“The mind can be a prison or a prism...I choose the latter.”
“Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.”
“English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.”
“She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.”
“Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”