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

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!

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

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

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

What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.

Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.