The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

Well-bred English people never have imagination.

It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.