Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.