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.

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world

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

No one really believes in equality who's on top.

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

No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.

Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.