And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

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.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.