Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

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

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

Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.