If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

"What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?"

'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she said.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.