Never presume yours is a better morality.

When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish died, and love died too perhaps or changed into this painful affection, loyalty, pity.

American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter.

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.

We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.