Nobody ever died of laughter.
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.
Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.
Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.
Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.