Aig [F.-M. Sir Douglas Haig] 'e don't say much; 'e don't, so to say, say nothin'; but what 'e don't say don't mean nothin', not 'arf. But when 'e do say something--my Gawd!

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

There is no diplomacy like candor.

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.

To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.