“She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”

“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”

“If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.”

“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”

“It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.”

“Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.”

“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”