Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.