The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

History is merely gossip

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.