From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished.