The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.