Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

There are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.