She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.

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 always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]

In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.