Quotes from Lady Randolph Churchill

You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

Italians love sun, sin, and spaghetti.

What is love without passion? - A garden without flowers, a hat without feathers, tobogganing without snow.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

Alma: I rather suspect her of being in love with him. Martin: Her own husband? Monstrous! What a selfish woman!

Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.

I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.

Life means work, and hard work, if you mean to succeed.

He [Winston Churchill] has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.