Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it. It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

It doesn't matter what we say , so long as we all say the same thing.

It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.

What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.

While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

Go relentlessly in the direction of your ultimate purpose of life and that which makes you happy.

Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

My parents told me to marry for money, ' said her husband. 'But I chose the love of a strong woman.''And look what trouble I turned out to be, ' she said.

Whenever a homeless person speaks to me in the USA, I always assume that I am speaking to a police officer and play along with the suspected charade.

Anger makes dull men witty but it keeps them poor.

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.

Libraries are our friends.

Procurement policies of all of the major parastatals, it is a very important element of that processes that will continue.