People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.