The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.