Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!

I've taken my fun where I've found it.

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

Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.