The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.