"Don't tell me you're a suffragist ?" she turned to Ridley.
"I don't care a fig one way or t'other," said Ambrose.

"If any creature is so deluded as to think that a vote does him or her any good, let him have it.

He'll soon learn better." "You're not a politician, I see," she smiled.
"Goodness, no," said Ridley.
"I'm afraid your husband won't approve of me," said Dalloway aside, to Mrs.Ambrose.She suddenly recollected that he had been in Parliament.
"Don't you ever find it rather dull ?" she asked, not knowing exactly what to say.
Richard spread his hands before him, as if inscriptions were to be read in the palms of them.
"If you ask me whether I ever find it rather dull," he said, "I am bound to say yes; on the other hand, if you ask me what career do you consider on the whole, taking the good with the bad, the most enjoyable and enviable, not to speak of its more serious side, of all careers, for a man, I am bound to say, 'The Politician's.'" "The Bar or politics, I agree," said Willoughby.

"You get more run for your money." "All one's faculties have their play," said Richard.

"I may be treading on dangerous ground; but what I feel about poets and artists in general is this: on your own lines, you can't be beaten--granted; but off your own lines--puff--one has to make allowances.