You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.

For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.