As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

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]

There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.