Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

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

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

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

There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.