Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.

Anthologies are mischievous things. Some years ago there was a rage for chemically predigested food, which was only suppressed when doctors pointed out that since human beings had been given teeth and digestive organs they had to be used or they degenerated very rapidly. Anthologies are predigested food for the brain.

The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.