Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.

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

Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.