Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.

New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.

I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.

In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.