She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.

The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.

She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.