The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.

Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.

The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.