Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

I'm really into kind of finding different masculine pieces and making them feminine. Like cool oxfords.

I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.

Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.

My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of.

I want to open my own yoga studio. Planning construction and looking at properties is fun.

I've always been the girl the kids in school would be like, 'What is she wearing?' Then eventually some trends would stick.

The better the writing, the easier it gets.