I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.