The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.

Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.

People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself... They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.