It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Assumptions are dangerous things.

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.