I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.