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

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.

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.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

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.

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