Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.