Quotes from Oliver Herford

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

Only the young die good.

If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen? Like Royalty, she goes her way, Laying foundations every day, Though not for Public Buildings, yet For Custard, Cake and Omelette.... No wonder, Child, we prize the Hen, Whose Egg is Mightier than the Pen.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even ... without any hope of doing it well.

Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.

Cat a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall