The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.