Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.

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

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

Aig [F.-M. Sir Douglas Haig] 'e don't say much; 'e don't, so to say, say nothin'; but what 'e don't say don't mean nothin', not 'arf. But when 'e do say something--my Gawd!

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.