Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

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

Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love.

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.

When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.