The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married.

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.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

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

Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?