I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.

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.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

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.

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

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

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