“Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.”

“I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.”

“A woman should always stand by a woman.”

“Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.”

“Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.”

“Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.”

“I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness... We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that... Do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.”

“There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.”