Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.