the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government....Man's place is in the armory.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.