Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

We are American at puberty. We die French.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.

The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!