I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

Time is a waste of money.

The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.