Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will surrender yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you.

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.