Alice Thomas Ellis

“Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.”

“I have a great liking for wild flowers. They are persistent.”

“Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison.”

“To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue.”

“If you are a woman, you are often asked to do things for free.”

“The popular conception of any philosophical doctrine is necessarily a crude simplification.”

“It is a great mistake to confuse horniness with evil.”

“It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.”

“There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters. The hamsters don't love anyone, so they kill them.”