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!

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

How can you contrive to write so even?

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.

What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.

The look Anthony shot at his sister was so comically malevolent Simon nearly laughed. He managed to restrain himself, but mostly just because he was fairly certain that any show of humor would cause Anthony's fist to lose its battle with his brain, with Simon's face emerging as the conflict's primary casualty.