Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.