When I’m a Duchess,” she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without. Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that; then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it, you know—

Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!

They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.

Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.