It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.