Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.