We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

To put failure behind you, face up to it.

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.