In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.