The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

It has been noticed that people who are not parents often have a peculiar fondness for children. This is sometimes attributed to a very beautiful nostalgia for a gift denied to them - dream-children, flowers that have only bloomed in imagination - but we think it is rather because they have not the faintest idea how dreadful children are.

Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.

If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.