Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.

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

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

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

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.

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

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

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

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

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

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

I have read 391 books... please- Enlight Me- Enlight Me- Enlight Me- Enlight Me- Enlight Me- Enlight Me

My policy is to have no policy.

Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.

I'm just a kid having fun.

It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.

We are naïve and moralistic women. We are human beings. Who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none.

In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs.