A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.