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

There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.

Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees.

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.

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