“Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.”
“...one must come to the understanding in the end that one was always insufficiently practiced, and yet one must sometimes act anyway. Practice itself was an act.”
“I am not a properly trained historian. I am a lawyer by trade, and an inquisitive, practical woman by character.”
“The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.”
“A sermon should be like a woman’s dress. Long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to keep your attention.”
“Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.”