Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.

A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.

It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable; an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.

If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.