envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.

There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.