There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.

In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.

I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.