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.

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

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

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

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

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

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