Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.

The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.

Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.

We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.