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.

The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

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

I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.