The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

There are two words for everything.

I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely

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

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 is no diplomacy like candor.

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