A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

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