I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.