To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.