Rebecca West

He is every other inch a gentleman.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.