No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."

Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.

People are either born hosts or born guests.

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.