The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.