Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution which would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curses of the world.

The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

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

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way