I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

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

I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old.

I have a simple taste, only the best.