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.

People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

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

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

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

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