In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.
There is no diplomacy like candor.
Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.
Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.
The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
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!