Rebecca West

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

He is every other inch a gentleman.

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

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

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

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