I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

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

A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

Heartbreak is life educating us.

The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.