Bad manners make a journalist.

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

Punctuality is the thief of time

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.