The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth . . . and the ambitions they had . . . and the things they suffered . . . and the people they loved. They get weaned away from the earth - that's the way I put it - weaned away.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.