Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily from the materially deprived At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.

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.

No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.