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.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

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

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

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

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