A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.