I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.