Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.

The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.

The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.