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.

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.

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?

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

Beauty itself doth of itself persuadeThe eyes of men without orator.

Learn, believe and achieve!

Still, we always have some level of choice, even if it only how we react and make use of what life brings us.

If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she would have to add: the fact that there was no justice.

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.

You are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

Onwards and upwards, and never give your failures a second thought.

I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.

Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments.