A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.

There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

"I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!"