The art of life is to show your hand.
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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.
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
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!