I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.

Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal... unless she's really attractive.

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing, pawing the earth, lashing the tail, breathing defiance at heaven and at me ... his heart hot with hate, unable to climb a stile.