James Hannay, Sketches and Characters.
ORD ANDOVER, a very fat man, was greatly plagued at a fancy bazaar to buy some trifle or other from the ladies' stalls. At length he rather rudely said, "I am like the Prodigal Son, persecuted by ladies." "No, no," retorted Mrs. ——, "say, rather, the fatted calf."
B. R. Haydon, Diary.
QUIET conscience makes one so serene!
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded,
That all the Apostles would have done as they did.
Lord Byron, Don Juan.
ERE you born in wedlock?" asked a counsel of a witness. "No, sir, in Devonshire," was the reply.