At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

But everything is relative, Bertie... You, for instance, are my relative, and I am your relative.

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

A little bit added to what you've already got gives you a little bit more.

One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours´ sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory.