there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.