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!

There are two words for everything.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

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

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

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

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.