To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are ….

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it..

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature..

[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk..

I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect..

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone..

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life..

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and sn….

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happines….

Till I see money spent on the betterment of man instead of on his idleness and destruction, I shall not believe in any perfect form of government..

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head..

The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few..

Stafford Cripps has a brilliant mind, until he makes it up..

Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest..

[To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't..

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions..

Convictions no doubt have to be modified or expanded to meet changing conditions but ... to be a reliable political leader sooner or later your ancho….

Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing no harm," I ought to be te….

She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig..

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries ….

My dear old friend King George V told me he would never have died but for that vile doctor, Lord Dawson of Penn..