She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

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

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long.

[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.