The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.

The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.