I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

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

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.

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