Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her.