The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

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

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.