Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for the fortunes of Mafeking, and when finally the news of its relief was flashed throughout the world, the streets of London became impassable, and the floods of sterling, cockney patriotism were released in such a deluge of unbridled, delirious joy as was never witnessed again till Armistace Night, 1918.

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.