Does one ever see any ghost that is not oneself?

- Marjorie Bowen

It is more difficult ... to rule the King's favorites than for the favorites to rule the King.

- Marjorie Bowen

What a rope of sand we are without a leader.

- Marjorie Bowen

I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my busyness is foolish.

- Marjorie Bowen

Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.

- Marjorie Bowen

Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.

- Marjorie Bowen