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

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

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

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

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

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

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.