The Dowager Countess

Tricked? I am not a conjurer.

The thing is to keep smiling and never look as if you disapprove.

“Lie” is so unmusical a word.

Seems a pity to miss such a good pudding.

Oh I’m so sorry, I thought you were a waiter.

Funny clothes and no food. Should be quite an evening.

An aristocrat without servants is as much use to the county as a glass hammer.

No family is ever what it seems from the outside.

Lady Gregory, Countess Markievicz. Why are all the Irish rebels so well-born?

No lady writes to a newspaper.