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.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

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

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.