A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.
The art of life is to show your hand.
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!
Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.