We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.