How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

One must make one's own mistakes

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.

Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.