An imitation rough diamond. |
From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war. |
He could not see a belt without hitting below it. |
He could not see a belt without hitting below it. |
He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up. |
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head |
His modesty amounts to deformity. |
If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster. |
It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die. |
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life |
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life |
Jean Harlow [Hollywood's sexy actress] kept calling Margot Asquith by her first name, or kept trying to: she pronounced it Margot. Finally Margot set her right. `No, no, Jean. The t is silent as in Harlow.' |
Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain (of which she is unconscious), headlines of murder, rape, and rubbish, excite and demoralize the American public. |
No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat. |
Of Lloyd George: he couldn't see a belt without hitting below it. |