There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

Youth is just wasted on young people.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.