The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

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

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

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

Every kind of writing is hypocritical.