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.

Isn't it lovely to be lovely me!

Even if I take him out for three hours every day, and go and chat to him for another hour, that leaves twenty hours for him all alone with nothing to do. Oh, why can't dogs read?

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.