Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the symmetry of your appearance. And your moustache. If you must have a moustache, let it be a real moustache-a thing of beauty such as mine.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

Many friends have said to me, 'I never know when you write your books, because I've never seen you writing, or even seen you go away to write.' I must behave rather as dogs do when they retire with a bone; they depart in a secretive manner and you do not see them again for an odd half hour. They return self-consciously with mud on their noses. I do much the same.