Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.