Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own – passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.
In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.
No one really believes in equality who’s on top.
Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions – fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action...
Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.
It’s been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.
People love to talk but hate to listen.
It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.
When a woman like that whom I’ve seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.
Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.
A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.