Quotes About Capon

The church is not in the morals business. The world is in the morals business, quite rightfully; and it has done a fine job of it, all things considered.

No, but that Oxford and his smart friends, they've changed him. Ideas, that's what it is. I said, What use is ideas when you've a capon to baste and the tally-man's due any minute? Name an idea, I said, that can get the front steps scrubbed, the sausages pricked and the navel oranges squeezed in time for a meat tea and finger buffet. Well, he didn't know which way to look.