To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

Well-bred English people never have imagination.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.

What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.