I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight could save him.

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.