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

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

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

The art of life is to show your hand.

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.

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