It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.

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 common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.