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

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

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

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

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

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.