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.

One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

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.

I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.

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.

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.