I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways.

Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.

Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.

Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.

The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the preparations concocted within its walls.

Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from dust, smoke, gas, etc.

The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels.

Pay, pay anything rather than go to law.

there should be a place for everything, and everything in its place.

Fish is held out to be one of the greatest luxuries of the table and not only necessary, but even indispensable at all dinners where there is any pretence of excellence or fashion.

Be a learning machine. What made you money last year, won't necessarily make you money this and next year.

to be right in the wrong direction may be wrong

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.

Apparently I had lunch with Johnny Depp when I was three months old.

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

That's one of the good things about a lot of the young British bands, they are mixing all styles of music. I think that's very good because that's very now.

The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders.

If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.

Kobe [Bryant] had the biggest contract for a high school kid. He was the first one to get more than a million a year.

I didn't want to hurt you," she blurted. "I never wanted to be someone you would regret. I'm not afraid for me. I'm afraid for you.