improved quotes

Even an Englishman was niver improved by bein' blown up.

- Finley Peter Dunne
'Revolution'. Collected in Louis Filler (ed)  The World of Mr Dooley (1962).

Weep not for little Le  onie Abducted by a French Marquis! Though loss of honour was a wrench Just think how it's improved her French.

- Harry Graham
  More Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes,'Compensation'.

'Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death,'said Clovis.

-Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro
  Beasts and Super-Beasts,'The Feast of Nemesis'.

The Englishwoman's clothes, too, have improved out of all knowledge†no longer are our hats, as inVictorian days, a kind of Pageant of Empire, whereon the products of all the colonies battle for precedence.

- Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
  EnglishWomen.