Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.