We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.

For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.