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

What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.