I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.