If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.
Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.
Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.
By nice women. . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.
Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.
Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.
People don't resent you for being brave. They resent themselves for being afraid.
Germany and France are pinning their hopes on young people, in terms of education, science and innovation.
Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.