Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.

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

There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.

Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.