Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.

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

Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.

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

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

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

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.