Each letter ends with a P.S. that's a catty quip about the feline in the house, A.K.A. "the Queen."
The same idea was expressed, albeit less nobly, in Otto von Bismarck's alleged quip that "God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States."
There are a number of capable women who have the ability to create an impact in society. Some of them quip that they are the women in pants. They have outstanding abilities and are versatile - able to swim, jump, play ball games and handle electrical and plumbing works.
And New Yorkers pride themselves on quick quip or a biting sarcastic remark.
The doctors are not entirely sympathetic, "If there was a surgery to enlarge brains, we would offer him a free trial," they quip.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
It was a quip that got me thinking, because behavioural economics does indeed have a dark side.
Many entrepreneurs and managers often dream and quip of the endless business possibilities we would have if only we had the flexibility of a huge financial war chest at our disposal.
Now psychologists have found that his quip bears the hallmark of truth.
Returning to a country from which Fiat was driven out by poor quality-americans used to quip that its name stood for "Fix it Again, Tony" -is a big risk.
ONE of Barack Obama's political problems, a popular quip has it, is that the remote, dispassionate and professorial President is just "not very good with the humans".
BJP parliamentarians quip that Mr Singh seems such a liability for Congress they are anxious lest he resign.
As I quip in Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, "No one asks to be born, but almost everyone would if he could."
He ended his speech with a merry quip.
It was now Fan Po-wen's turn for another quip.
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