The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.

Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. This makes them prone to set themselves up as critics and censors of the frail and erring human beings whose lot they share.

If you could call the thing a horse. If it hadn't shown a flash of speed in the straight, it would have got mixed up with the next race.

Flowers are happy things.

New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.

I never was interested in politics. I'm quite unable to work up any kind of belligerent feeling. Just as I'm about to feel belligerent about some country I meet a decent sort of chap. We go out together and lose any fighting thoughts or feelings.

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.