Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Well-bred English people never have imagination.

The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he must love it. If he does so, he will realise that in its service is perfect freedom.

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

Advertise, or go under.

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.