The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.
Elizabeth AstonWhat is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.
Elizabeth AstonConcern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.
Elizabeth AstonThe first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.
Elizabeth Aston