There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.
The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.
I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.
If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.
I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.