I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

I think I owe my life to cork soles.

There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them.