Lady Dorothy Fanny Nevill (1 April 1826 in London – 24 March 1913 in London), was an English writer, hostess, horticulturist and plant collector.
If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.
For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.
One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.
The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.
The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.
It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.
A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.
conversation is now pretty well a lost art.
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