Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons.

I've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.

He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.