"Lord Birkenhead is very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head."

"There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs -- apart from discernment -- a certain greatness to find him."

"Dear boy, it isn't that your manners are bad -- it's simply that you have no manners at all."

"To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has "never had a chance, poor devil," you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak . . ."

"If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster."