A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.