Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

General consultant to mankind.

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them