 Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. |
| Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds. |
| We are all failures at least, all the best of us are. |
| His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall. |
| Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that. |
| That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. |
| You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip. |
| It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. |
