Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

Above all else, never think you're not good enough.

One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.