To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

I may be old fashioned, but I am right.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century