envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it..

A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible..

The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. ….

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet..

People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed..

Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! ….

Everything comes to the man who won't wait..

To a woman--I mean, a nice woman--there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, ….

Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men..

A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering..

There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be th….

Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!.

She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did..

It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this t….

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past..

All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too..

When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spi….

Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance..

Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Appa….

Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public..

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure..