There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.