[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.

[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.

If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.