Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.