Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

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.

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

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.