Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

Have you noticed that many jewels make women either incredibly fat or incredibly thin?

May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.

I do believe in fairies, I do, I do.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.