Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.

Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her hands is to hire some other poor wretch to do her housework.