She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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.

Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.

First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

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.