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

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.

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

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.

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.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was something beautiful inside.

I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.

I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds, 14 people showed up, it was overcast.

My kids going to school and teachers denying my kids the grades that they should have once they found out that I was their father.

To dream costs nothing.

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

Every artist is different - I work with a lot of artists from the ground up because it's really amazing to watch projects go from Minute 1.

We only think about the difficult people and the horrible things that happen. That's what gets all the media attention.

I will praise any man that will praise me.