conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

- Dorothy Nevill

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

- Dorothy Nevill

For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the stre…

- Dorothy Nevill

It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of c…

- Dorothy Nevill

If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.

- Dorothy Nevill

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

- Dorothy Nevill

The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

- Dorothy Nevill

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

- Dorothy Nevill