You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.