However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The best people to work for are me, myself and I.

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.