I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.