To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.