The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

If only the good were a little less heavy-footed

Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.