Indeed, in many respects she was quite English and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language

I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

I know you very well, and I know you need a good English teacher.

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable