Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody should face the fact that a lot of people never will be smart, and that they should be given some assistance in maintaining their fascinating dowdiness.

Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!

In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.