Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.