To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, […] Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

Every member of the department can identify somebody inside or outside the department who is a time bandit: a person who is stealing their precious time.

He wants to see what's bouncing around inside your blouse or dangling down your inside trouser leg and to refuse him is to take refuge in a modesty that, in a Sternian universe, is almost unbecoming.

Your outfit is giving!