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Children should be like waffles
you should be able to throw the first one away.

When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.

Oh my past! It's such a long time ago now.

Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

Men, in general, are so treacherous, so envious, and so cruel that it is a comfort to find one who is only weak.

She ... ran away so often, and with so many different people, that she became known to her family and friends as the Bolter ...

Oh! How like a woman," Davey said. "Sex, my dear Sadie, is not a sovereign cure for everything, you know. I only wish it were.

Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !

In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

Sun, silence, and happiness.

English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.

There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are ...

If one can't be happy, one must be amused ...

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?

Women are divided into two categories: those who can deal with the men they are in love with, and those who cannot. Sophia was one of those who can.

Frenchwomen always give one to understand that arranging themselves is full-time work.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

There they are, held like flies, in the amber of that moment ...

Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love ...

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is.

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

Talk about what you know and you won't get so angry

My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only read one book in my life, and that is 'White Fang.' It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible ...

Always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

Nobody ought to write books before they're thirty. I hate precocity.

Love indeed - whoever invented love ought to be shot.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

It was furnished neither in good taste nor in bad taste, but simply with no attempt at taste at all ...

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

Oh, the spectacles - I have to wear them when I go abroad, I have such kind eyes you see, beggars and things cluster round and annoy me.